Posts Tagged ‘eSports’

Video games are a waste of time. Well, are they? That’s what we were here to find out at the Inter-School eSports Championship 2018. Organized by GamerLK and powered by Dialog Gaming the championship took place on the 22nd and 23rd of September 2018. We saw the tournament last year as well Entering the virtual […]

A few days ago, we wrote about the IESF Sri Lanka Qualifiers. As the name explains, this is the Sri Lanka qualifier for the IeSF World Championship 2018. Held for the 10th consecutive year, the championship is organized by the International eSports Federation. The IeSF is thus far the only international membership-based non-profit organization to […]

eSports in Sri Lanka is growing at a slow but steady pace. From the number of tournaments held yearly, to the sheer number of up and coming gamers in Sri Lanka, it’s just about time for Sri Lanka to make its presence known in the international stadiums as well. If you recall, a team of […]

Just because you’re good on the corporate battlefield, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be a slouch when you’re gaming either. This is where the Mercantile eSports Championship 2018 comes into play (literally). Organized by GamerLK and powered by Dialog Gaming, the Mercantile eSports Championship 2018 will take place on the 21st and 22nd of July […]

If you recall, a couple of weeks ago, a group of Sri Lankan eSports athletes made their way to Vietnam to take part in the Qualifiers for the 2018 Asian Games. The athletes would represent Sri Lanka in gaming titles such as League of Legends, StarCraft 2, Hearthstone, Clash Royale and Pro Evolution Soccer 18. […]

The 2018 Asian Games, better known as the Jakarta Palembang 2018 is essentially a multi-sport event that will take place from the 18th of August to the 2nd of September in Indonesia. Think of it as the Olympic Games. Both events are held every 4 years, but the Asian Games are only for those who […]

Keeping up an event for 10 years itself is a remarkable achievement. However, uplifting an infamous gaming culture on an island and expanding it for ten years is a completely different story. While the country’s biggest eSports event took place as a part of PlayExpo ’17 organized by Gamer.LK at SLECC, the question we all […]

GamerFest ’17 powered by SLT was organized by Phoenix GaminG along with Spectre (a Networking Students’ batch from ICBT) on the 12th August at the ICBT City Campus Auditorium. While GamerFest had the standard line up of team and individual games, there were two new titles introduced and they created their fair share of cheers […]

While eSports in Sri Lanka keeps getting more attention, it has been a while since we saw a local qualifier of a bigger international tournament. That rare opportunity presented itself to all DOTA 2 & Counter Strike: GO players this year with Asus extending their ROG Masters tournament all the way to a Sri Lankan […]

From the venerable 8-bit games such as Mario and Duck Hunt, to some of the most graphically advanced games such as the upcoming Anthem by Bioware and the new Assassins Creed, the gaming industry is certainly booming. If you take multiplayer gaming, that number increases further. Whoever said that gaming isn’t a profitable business might […]

For the second consecutive year, Gamer.LK held the Inter-University eSports Championship at Trace Expert City. Alongside this, the Geek Avurudu Celebrations was also held at the same premises. In eight competitive titles, students from various universities took part to gain individual glory and to try and win the overall championship. The available titles for this year […]

For the 9th consecutive year, Gamer.LK held the biggest local Games Festival – Sri Lanka Cyber Games ’16. Following a series of qualifiers that took place in different regions of the country, the SLCG 2016 grand finale looked towards BMICH in Colombo for three action-packed days from 9-11th December. While SLCG stood as the battlefield […]

The time has come once again when the cyber-athletes in yellow & black, n00b Alliance calls the entire community to take part in their super action-packed eSports fiesta – Get nAiled ’16. The event is organized in partnership with Hutch and under the rules and regulations of Gamer.LK.Get nAiled will be opening the doors for […]

If you have heard any of these sentences being yelled out, chances are you have been exposed to Blizzard’s latest major franchise Overwatch. “Oh Sh*t, they have a Bastion” “Reinhart’s shield is down” “Genji behind us! Genji Behind us”. “No! He picked Hanzo! For those who are yet under a rock, Overwatch is a team-based […]

Dubbed the premier ICT exposition in South East Asia, Infotel has come to an end. Once again as Digital Media Partners, we at ReadMe spent our Friday night and weekend at Infotel 2016. Over the course of three days, we went exploring across BMICH and found everything the exposition had to offer. As with previous […]

A few days back, we saw a unique event. This event set a milestone in Lankan eSports history. This event was the first ever Inter-School eSports Championship. Held inside Trace Expert City, it opened the doors for students to compete in one grand arena filled with an electrifying atmosphere. Students from over 50 schools took part […]

At one point at school, many of us have dreamed of a day we can keep the books aside to play games at school. That dream is about to become a reality. Lock and load, get ready for the first ever Inter-School eSports Championship. The championship organized by Gamer.LK will be open to students from all schools. The event will […]

Mobalytics is a platform that promises to deliver visual analytics to competitive gamers so that they can find out their weaknesses and adjust accordingly. Believe it or not, competitive gaming is an industry that is consistently evolving and surpassing all expectation it has. Gamers are constantly trying to up their game and become faster and […]

A day finally came when we were invited to keep our pen down and play a video game with our boss’ approval. That’s not all, it was also a chance to team up with our workmates and represent the company in that one activity we all love to skip a day from work and do. […]

When EG (Evil Geniuses) won The International 5 in 2015, they set a record of $18,429,613 ($16,829,613 added by the Player Community) as a prize pool, which was by far the biggest seen for the annual tournament. This year, however, that record is set to be broken. The team-based battle game by Valve has surpassed […]